The Raven Boys |
One of the things that makes me really enjoy a book is when I find it is like no other book I have read. New setting, new characters, and new themes generally add up to a good read for me. In The Raven Boys we have psychics, rich private school boys, ghosts, a dead Welsh king, and mysterious lines around the Earth called "ley lines" which have an unusual amount of psychic energy.
Blue Sargent is the daughter of a psychic and even though she is not herself psychic, she helps others by somehow magnifying and focusing psychic energy with her presence. Blue and her mother live in a house with other psychics and they make a living from reading tarot cards for clients. Blue also works in a diner and she makes friends with a group of students from the prestigious Aglionby Academy after one of them leaves a journal filled with entries about a dead Welsh king and ley lines. Could these be related to the corpse lines that her mother and her friends feel in the area?
I like Blue. She is smart, brave, and independent. She has an interesting relationship with her mother which can be seen in this conversation.
I highly recommend this book to teens who enjoy a little fantasy and mysticism. This is the first of a series and I really hope the originality continues into the next book.Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with __. Drugs? Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs? No. but maybe rituals. Drugs might be better. I'm not interested in them. Their effects are proven - where's the fun in that?
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